This is the heart-wrenching moment that a mother was forced to throw her two children out of a fourth floor window as fire ravaged their home.

Mila Aksakova, 36, was caught on camera hurtling the children towards the street in a drastic bid to save them from the blaze.

Neighbours in the village of Energetic, in the Russian Republic of Baskkortostan, looked on as Vanya, four, and Natalya, 13, were launched from the window, after the apartment's exit became cut off by flames.

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Mila Aksakova, 36, from Energetic, Russia, was forced to throw her two children out of their fourth floor apartment window to escape a fire

The mother-of-two hurled the two children to the ground below, where neighbours were waiting with taut bedsheets to catch them

The recording, taken from across the road from the block of flats, shows the children tumbling towards the street, where other residents waited to catch them with taut bedsheets.